The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up With all this pushback, why is Redis taking this approach? It’s largely because AWS ElastiCache provides Redis services without Redis getting paid for it. Redis is combating this by placing new code modules under Common Clause. As Salil Deshpand, a venture capitalist with …

Yosemite X announces first open-source public blockchain without native cryptocurrency Yosemite X, a blockchain technology company, today announced the release of its open-source public blockchain that operates without a native cryptocurrency, giving developers and businesses the ability to build solutions and reduce costs, without the price volatility of crypto. This approach enables companies to reap …

A Venture Capitalist’s Read On Themes From Davos: Open Source And Observability …once observability becomes deeply embedded, an organization’s decision making will evolve from data-driven, to data-originated, where outputs not only inform decisions, but suggest decisions. Read full article.

Open source cloud databases battle software ‘strip mining’ Cloud giants like AWS have adopted open source databases, causing Confluent, MongoDB and others to guard their assets the best way they know how: licensing. “There is a new and unique dynamic with public cloud providers, particularly AWS, who take open source software and sell it as …

Assessing the economic impact and business models of open source If you combine IBM’s acquisition with Microsoft’s buyout of GitHub last year, at the very least you could say that the open source game is changing. These events communicate an increasing interest from the enterprise space in open source technologies as bankable prospects, with big …